RSS FeedYesterday, a young man killed nine people at a small college in Oregon. Witnesses said he asked them their religion; if they said, "Christian," he shot them in the head. If they weren't Christians, the witnesses said, he only shot them in the legs.
You can argue, as one talking head already has, that it, "wasn't really Christians he was after," he just wanted notoriety and figured the Christian angle would do it. While I won't argue he probably desired infamy, he didn't ask his victims if they were chess players, or atheists, or Huskies fans, or white supremacists, or counted cross-stitchers. He specifically sought Christians as targets – an increasingly popular pastime, in one form or another, here and around the world.
I don't know the names of his Christian victims, whether they were men or women, young or old, or who grieves for them today. Nor can I imagine their last thoughts. But I know this: though they faced death they did not...
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